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28 September 2016

Innovative public procurement can lower pressure on health budgets

Published : Wed, 28 Sep 2016 Most EU countries struggle with increasing healthcare costs. At the same time, patients are dealing with increasing contributions to health insurance systems. More efficient procurement of medical devices, medic...
12 November 2015

Public Health and Nutrition Economics: the numbers behind prevention?

At a time when national health systems are under great financial pressure and greater investment is warranted in prevention of ill health, only about 3% of current EU health expenditure is allocated to public health and prevention programmes.